Research Engineer Graduate (Seed-Infra-Machine Learning Sys Training-US) - 2026 Start (PhD)

The Seed-Infra team combines ML system engineering and the art of machine learning to develop and maintain massively distributed ML training and Inference system/services around the world, providing high-performance, highly reliable, scalable systems for LLM/AIGC/AGI. In our team, you'll have the opportunity to build the large-scale heterogeneous system integrating with GPU/NPU/RDMA/Storage and keep it running stable and reliable, enrich your expertise in coding, performance analysis and distributed system, and be involved in the decision-making process. You'll also be part of a global team with members from the United States, China and Singapore working collaboratively towards unified project direction.

We are looking for talented individuals to join our team in 2026. As a graduate, you will get opportunities to pursue bold ideas, tackle complex challenges, and unlock limitless growth. Launch your career where inspiration is infinite at ByteDance.

Successful candidates must be able to commit to an onboarding date by end of year 2026. Please state your availability and graduation date clearly in your resume.

Responsibilities:
Responsible for the machine learning system development of the company's large-scale models, researching new applications and solutions of related technologies in areas such as search, recommendation, advertising, content creation, conversation, and customer service, meeting the growing demand for intelligent interaction from users, and comprehensively improving users' lifestyles and communication methods in the future world.

The main work directions include:
- Responsible for the design and development of the architecture of large-scale machine learning systems, solving technical difficulties such as high concurrency, high reliability, and high scalability of the system.
- Covering various sub-directions of machine learning system, including resource scheduling, model training, model inference, data management, and workflow orchestration.
- Responsible for the research and introduction of advanced technologies in machine learning systems, such as the latest hardware architecture, heterogeneous computing systems, and compiler-based optimization technologies.
- Working closely with the algorithm teams to optimize the algorithm and system jointly.

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $129960 - $246240 annually.